Amherst College - Olio Yearbook (Amherst, MA)

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the Octagon and music at Amherst . . . this year, To the Fairest College . . . every year, the Singing College . . . sounds emanating from College Hall every Thursday night, prepatory to a trip to Bermuda . . . a marching band watching the football team's zip, but needing, equally as much, zippy uni- forms . . . the lnterfraternity Sing, fea- turing coats and ties and Dekes . . . the ubiquitous Zumbyes, the fun- loving DQ's, the Glee Club in tails, the omnipresent Chapel Choir in robes . . . the Lud's vigorous hands over Dean Porter's head every morn- ing at 9 . . . interminable and inevi- table Chapel . . . perhaps it is coarse and constant usage . . . but then we'd miss Prof. Greene's historical talks and the dogs, who like Chapel next best . . . the architect has succeeded acZnzt1'ably,' not only in securing the scientzfc objects, but also in retaining to a degree almost defy- ing criticism, the fnest archfiteetural pro- P07'f'i0?'1S.,, Pres. Edward Hitchcock to Valentine . . . and what would we have to mock if it weren't for Chapel? and how could we have the secular service and Chapel Dash? and how would we ever know how late we were going to be for classes? . . . nearly necessary . . . the hymn today is number 14 in the New Hymnal . . . the boys asleep in the back rows . . . Make Dean's List this semester? . . . yeah, l'm on the list to see the Dean . . . headquarters for the campus cops . . . no more the familiar, unique, and

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is 'L+ . ', Shepherd, and Ronan . . . Debate Council, Outing Club, and the Phi Bete room . . . Spring comes but once a year . . . our prelude to spring is mud . . . the mud that's little publicized but much in evidence . . . the mud we curse and have to live with . . . Merrill Place . . . finishing touches on a swish and much-needed GI Village re- placement . . . a college grateful to a generous benefactor . . . missed breakfast. . . Wonder if there're any glazed doughnuts left? . . . Valentine gets us sooner or later . . . no cutting in line l?l . . . deserts on four . . . Rob- ert Frost, if not an edifice, certainly one of Amherst's best-loved living monuments . . .

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-31 D -100-1 A S' . .3 -f A A. smokeless face in the Registrar's ottice . . . James and Stearns cmd the Quad . . . the Frosh-Soph rivalry and battles between the dorms at night . . . the Pelham Hills and Stearns Tower in a late fall sunset . . . throwing snowballs at some poor sucker's open window . . . Iinoleum corridor-floors under two inches of water . . . the gradual ac- quisition of the knowledge that the campus cop is not a banana . . . the chimes shaking sack-hounds out of a sound sleep late Sunday morning . . . as Freshmen we sat on the walls be- tween the dorms, between dates . . . as Seniors we passed through these walls to the site of the Senior sing . . . softball games 'til it's too dark to see . . . beer, blankets, and books on lazy Spring afternoons. Our College Chapel as now used is any- thing but a sacred place. Declamations, ex- hibitions, with clappings and hurrahs, and all the dirt and vulgarity which results from coarse and constant usage makes it seem more like a town house than a meeting house. Pres. William Stearns I know that the impression prevails widely that it is far safer to the morals of students to have them congregate in large dormitory buildings than to be scattered through the community. I must say that my own obser- ration for many years does not sustain such an opinion, but rather the reversef, Pres. Edward Hitchcock